Rail-joint.



No. 878,692. PATENTED FEB. 11,1908; JLURBANBK.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED y; 23, 1904.

JOSEPH URBANEK, OF SQHTlYLER, NEBRASKA.

RAILJ'OINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Pategted Feb. 11, 1908.

Application filed May 23 1904- Serial No. 209.355.

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH URBANEK, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Schuyler, in the county ofColfax and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Improvementin a Rail-Joint, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generally to rail joints and. more particularlyto one which has'for its object to provide a safe and ei'licientconnection between the meeting ends of railroad rails and which will, atthe same time avoid the. jar incidental to the passage of the wheel overthe joints now in common use. i V

- Another object of the'invention is to provide a rail joint which willprovide an unbroken tread without weakening the rails or the means forfastening the meeting ends together.

l/Vith these objects in view my invention consists essentially intapering the treadof the meeting ends of the rails by cutting the headof the rails away at each side so that when the said rails are arrangedend to end a V-shaped recess will be arranged at ope posite sides of thejoint and into which iit the triangular shaped project-ions carried bythe fish plates connecting the meeting ends of the rails, saidtriangular shapediiprojev tions fitting snugly in the VTshaped recessesand completing the tread of the rail at the joint.

The invention consists also in certain details hereinafter fullydescribed and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification of a complete railjoint constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a Viewshowing in perspective the meeting ends of. the rails. Fig. is a Viewshowing in perspective the fish plates employed for uniting the rails.Fig. 4 is a detail perspee tive view of" the base plate or chair.

Referring to the drawings A indicate the meeting ends of two ordinaryrailroad rails, the head of the, rail being cutaway obliquely upon theopposite sides as most clez'u'ly shown at A so that when the rails arearranged end to end as shown in Fig. l a

wide V-shaped' recess A is produced upon,

the opposite sides of the head of the rail. lt will be noted that thebase and web ol the rail are not reduced in any mannorwhat- Figure 1. 1sa perspective view' ever. The ends of the rails rest upon the base plateor chair B which is formed with upwardly and inwardly projecting edgesVB notched at B upon the outer side of the angle to receive the ordinarysecuring spikes.

C C indicate the 'lish plates arranged upon the op )osite sides of themeeting ends of the rails t e lower outer edges (j of said fish platescontacting withthe upwardly and in wardly extending edges B of the baseplate ,or chair B. Each 'lish plate 0 has an upward extension 1)-arranged cent-rally of the upper edge said extension I) being triangularin iorizontal crosssection and of a size and shape to fit snugly in thewide V-shaped re eess A". Thus 1t will be seen that when the parts areassembled the iish plates combine the meeting ends of the rails the sameas usual and the triangular shaped extensions I fit into the recessesproduced upon the opposite sides of the joint and thereby span the jointbetween the meeting ends of the rails. By having the ends of thc'railcut away upon the-opposite sides as .shown and having'the extensionstriangular in shape the wheel of the car will rollupon this extensionacross the joint without any jar whatever whereas it the ends of therail were cut away on an angular line and the extensions D made withsquare ends there would be a certain amount of jar incidental to thewheel rolling u on the sai'dextensions.

It will be further noticed that along its lower edge the fish plate C isangled down- .wardly, as at C", and the edge beveled, and

this portion 0 fits between the base of the rail A and the flange B ofthe chair, the lower, inner ortion of the said llange being out or angleto fit snugly the beveled edge of'the angled portion ot' the iish plate,as is shown at B.

llaving thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to securoby 1 Letters Patent, is

in a rail joint, the combination with a base-plate having upwardly andinwardly projecting edges provided with notches, of rails arranged onsaid plate having their heads cut away obliquely upon both sides attheir meeting ends l'ormiug a V-shaped recess upon opposite sides ol'lhehead of the rail, said base plate being of a greater width than the baseof the rails, fish-plates arranged uponopposile sides of the meetingends of the rails, the lower outer ends being 'bent downwardly andtlifedges beveled said fisb-blates being secured together by.

adapted to fit between the base of'themils bolts. t and the flanges ofthe plate, and-an upwardly I JOSEPH R A extendmg extensionarrangedeen'tmlly on 5 the upper edge'of the fish-plates,- triangularWitfiesf ses in horizontal cross-section and of a size and EDW. WZERZAR,V shape to fit snugly in the V-shaped recesses, GERALD EHEBNBERQEIL.

